>>10667874I'm also thinking about quitting my PhD program, except I'm in my 5th year. The main reason is that, as I was about to graduate, I found out that the degree plan I had been working toward never got properly submitted by my program director. This means that under the "temporary" degree plan, I need to take another 8 courses in topics I am not interested in what-so-ever which might mean another several years. On top of this, there is basically no advising and although I have about 2 pages of publications and several developed software packages accomplished in my time being here, these were completed either alone or with people from outside the program.
My method for quitting is a little different than that of the girl in the video because, as it happens, I have a kid and I'm married, so "just working on things I like instead" isn't a viable option for me. First, I demanded my advisor give me an actual job that pays well enough -- seems like that is likely to happen as one of the grants we are working on renewed with even more money than last year. Second, I gave my department and the graduate school about as much shit as possible about this entire situation and they seem to have agreed to drop the number of classes I need to take to finish the PhD to 3-4, but this is still awaiting confirmation. This might give me an option to finish the PhD later, if I feel like it. Finally, because I don't trust my department or the grad school, I enrolled in an MS degree that is closer to what I want to do and I am going to make my department pay the tuition for it. Since my advisor can't afford to lose me on his grant, I have assurances the department won't cut bait with me.
tl;dr Might quit my PhD because the department fucked me, but I'm determined to fuck them back and get what I want first.